European General category: 8233 books
The Encyclopedia of European Migration and Minorities
From the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Although migration and integration have become important concepts today as a result of globalization, migration movements, integration, and multiculturalism have always been part of the history of Europe. Few people realize how many ethnic groups participated in migration within Europe or into Europe...
Women and Political Power
Europe since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
The advance of women through the political system has been one of the most significant developments of the second half of the twentieth century. For the first time we have seen women Prime Ministers and Presidents in Europe.
Women and Political Power examines the extent of progress women have made...
The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe
Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system. But they largely ignore a more fundamental question: why did the emergence of new forms...
Furies
War in Europe, 1450–1700
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
During the European Renaissance, an age marked equally by revolutionary thought and constant warfare, it was armies, rather than philosophers, who shaped the modern European nation state. "Mobile cities" of mercenaries and other paid soldiers-made up of astonishingly diverse aggregations of ethnicities...
The Bitter Road to Freedom
A New History of the Liberation of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
American s are justly proud of th e role their country played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny. For many years, we have celebrated the courage of Allied soldiers, sailors, and aircrews who defeated Hitler's regime and restored freedom to the continent. But in recounting the heroism of the "greatest...
by Rosalynd Pflaum
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Out of the pages of European history comes a story as colorful and torrid as any modern fiction—the never-been-told-before-told account of the lives of the grand duchess of Courland and her daughters Wilhelmina and Dorothea. By Influence and Desire is the story of how these independent, intelligent...
by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
The second edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated to include expanded coverage of the late eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, and incorporates recent advances in gender history, global connections and cultural analysis. It features summaries, timelines, maps, illustrations...
First Reich
Inside The German Army During The War With France 1870 - 71
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Because it lasted only seven months, the Franco-Prussian War has sometimes been ignored by historians and yet it merits study for the fact that it was the first deployment of a ruthlessly efficient and superbly organised German Army, a phenomenon that was to be seen twice more in the next 75 years....
Between Marx and Coca-Cola
Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
In the 1960s and 1970s, Western Europe's "Golden Age" (Eric Hobsbawm), a new youth consciousness emerged, which gave this period its distinctive character. Offering rich and new material, this volume moves beyond the easy conflation of youth culture and "Americanization" and instead...
by Helen M. Jewell
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
The period from c. 500 to 1200 comprises the formative centuries in European history after the fall of the Roman Empire in the west. Societies had to live through political, social, economic and religious challenges. Half the population, though, also had to labour under additional constraints imposed...
Writing the Yugoslav Wars
Literature, Postmodernism, and the Ethics of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
In Writing the Yugoslav Wars, Dragana Obradović analyses how the Yugoslav wars of secession helped shape the region’s literary culture. Obradović argues that the crisis of the country’s disintegration posed an ethical challenge to self-identified postmodernists. This book takes a transnational...
The Atlantic World
Europeans, Africans, Indians and their Shared History, 1400–1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
From 1400 to 1900 the Atlantic Ocean served as a major highway, allowing people and goods to move easily between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. These interactions and exchanges transformed European, African, and American societies and led to the creation of new peoples, cultures, economies, and...
Ornament and European Modernism
From Art Practice to Art History
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
These in-depth, historical, and critical essays study the meaning of ornament, the role it played in the formation of modernism, and its theoretical importance between the mid-nineteenth century and the late twentieth century in England and Germany. Ranging from Owen Jones to Ernst Gombrich through...
Early European Castles
Aristocracy and Authority, AD 800-1200
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Medieval castles were, alongside the great cathedrals, the most recognisable buildings of the medieval world. Closely associated with concepts of justice, lordship and authority as well as military might, castles came to encapsulate the period's very essence.
Looking at above and below-ground...